Toyota executives wear green lapel pins on their suits and have plastered Toyota factories with images of a green leaf in the shape of a car.

FORBES: Green, All Right

The wild basil is still in my hand and as I chew a green leaf, releasing its strong, earthy flavours, the colours of Ibiza seem at once to be all around me: in taste, smell, sound and sight.

BBC: The three colours of Ibiza

The car was tiny, Continental-looking, green-colored with a lighter-green leaf stencilled on the door, as distinctively alien in the car park as Hilda had been among the shoppers inside.

NEWYORKER: She��s the One

The Leaf got a green score of 54, the Volt 48.

FORBES: Green car book disses the Chevy Volt, GM isn't too happy

Those pictures were her one real memento of him, page after page of watercolors from a world that, even before she opened the book for the first time, was gone forever, leaf green and sky blue and damson, wiped out by a tide of cattle trucks and unmarked graves.

NEWYORKER: The Bell Ringer

He stuck mostly with pant suits, wool shift or trapeze dresses and coats in solids, accented with a sprinkling of white-and-black stripes and large leaf prints in autumnal red, orange-red, green, purple and a rich deep blue.

WSJ: Friendships bubble up at NY Fashion Week

Invisible and, often odorless, green leaf volatiles emitted from vegetation act as a defense mechanism, communicating to other foliage that danger is near.

ENGADGET: Chemical sensors could detect plants' cries for help, reduce need for pesticides

Good colour sorters need to learn to tell three dozen leaf shades ranging from a deep brown to a rich green at a glance.

ECONOMIST: Cuban cigars